By Alan W. Aldrich
Thursday, July 22, 2010
New Pilot Database Project from the Law Library of Congress: The Global Legal Information Catalog
Audio Report from NPR: Stanford’s New Engineering Library Coming Soon With 85% Fewer Books + Reports on Cornell U. and Cushing Academy Bookless Libraries
Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries by Laura Sydell
Health and Medical Research: MedlinePlus Redesign
Videos & Cool Tools
Learn by watching health videos on topics such as human anatomy, surgical procedures and health news. Test your knowledge with the interactive tutorials and games. Check your health by using the calculators and quizzes.
Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without
The folks at Making Teachers Nerdy have put together a list of the Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without. If you’re an educator you’ll want to check out this list as it has a lot of great suggestions such as:
• Dropbox
• Prezi
• BeFunky
• Google Tools for Educators
• Zamzar
A Complete Guide To Tumblr - Tumblelogging
Think of Tumblr as micro-blogging on steroids (technically, it’s called “tumblelogging”). Whereas Twitter and similar services limit posts to 140 characters or less, Tumblr lets you post updates of any length, although it’s best suited to short-format posts. Tumblr bridges the gap between full-blown blog and micro-blog.
Tumblr is also an option for designers and creative people, because it gives you complete control over the look of your tumblelog. It also offers great opportunities for theme designers, especially with the recent launch of premium themes (which range in price from $9 to $49). Read on for your complete guide to using and designing for Tumblr.
[Offtopic: by the way, did you know that there is a Smashing eBook Series? Book #1 is Professional Web Design, 242 pages for just $9,90.]
Innovative Educators Webinar: Identifying and Managing Aggressive Student Behaviors, Attitudes and Emotions
Tuesday, August 24 & Tuesday, September 28, 2010
1:00-2:30 EDT
$345.00
Webinar Description
This seminar is designed to assist faculty and staff to better understand how to identify and manage aggressive behavior in those around them. The training is centered on the research of John Byrnes, a nationally recognized leader in Aggression Management who has taught his program to the US Army, NASA, US Postal Office, Citibank, Walt Disney World and educational settings.
This seminar will offer training in the areas of identifying and managing potentially aggressive student behaviors, attitudes and emotions. The training will include a discussion of the signs and symptoms of the trigger, crisis and escalation phases of aggression, the difference between primal and cognitive aggression and the art of "safe escape" from aggressive individuals and dangerous situations.
The material will include an overview of how to work with those students engaged in indirect aggressive behaviors and personality traits in community living situations. These will include a description and management techniques for the seven most common passive aggressive personality types which occur in college students.
Objectives
Objective 1 - INTRODUCTION TO AGGRESSION MANAGEMENT
Faculty and Staff will develop an understanding of Aggression Management through the trigger, escalation and crisis phase. We will discuss crisis management, threat assessment, conflict resolutions and explore the causes of aggression.
Objective 2 - THE MAKING OF AN AGGRESSION MANAGER
Participants will explore the Aggression Continuum and the corresponding physical and behavioral cues that accompany aggression. This will also include a discussion of the differences between primal and cognitive aggressors.
Objective 3 - THE UNMAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Faculty and Staff will develop an understanding of the seven most common passive aggressive personality types which occur in college students. These are the Sherman Tank, Sniper, Exploder, Complainer, Negativist, Clam, and Bulldozer.
Objective 4 - BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNICATION WITH AN AGGRESSOR
Participants will learn the importance of persuasion, how to use trust to communicate and the importance of emotional weighting, verbal manipulation, deception detection and pacing of the aggressor.
Objective 5 - THE ART OF SAFE ESCAPE
Faculty and Staff will learn how to escape from a crisis, choose the high ground and understand how and when to escape an at-risk situation.
Who Should Attend?
Faculty and Staff concerned about how to better manage difficult behavior
Deans, VP of Student Affairs, Health Directors, Counseling Directors
Directors of Housing, Resident Directors
Seasoned Faculty
New Faculty (use as part of your new faculty orientation)
Academic Affairs Staff
Adjunct Faculty looking for additional training
Support staff, Registrar, Financial Aid
Who is the Speaker?
Dr. Brian Van Brunt
Dr. Van Brunt has worked in the counseling field for over fifteen years and has recently begun serving as the president-elect of the American College Counseling Association. He served as Director of Counseling at New England Collegefrom 2001-2007 and currently serves as Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. His counseling style draws from a variety of approaches, though primarily from the humanistic/person-centered style of treatment with its emphasis on warmth, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard, individual choice and personal responsibility. He is a certified QPRsuicide prevention trainer and trained in BASICS alcohol intervention. Brian is also a certified trainer in John Byrne's Aggression Management program.
Brian has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, and testing and assessment for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has presented on web site design at the Georgia College Counseling Association (GCCA) conference in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College's website. He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation. He has taught undergraduate classes in adjustment and personal growth, deviance and counseling theory.
He completed his doctorate from Argosy Universityin Sarasota Florida (formerly the University of Sarasota) in counseling psychology, finished his master's degree from Salem State Collegein counseling and psychological services and received a bachelor's in psychology from Gordon College.
Smart Classroom: The Technology That Saved a University Degree Program
Videoconferencing has been promoted as a way for classes to meet during storms and pandemics. It has provided a way for students to get instruction from experts around the world. But at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis the technology has also helped sustain an academic degree that might otherwise not have survived.
David Rumsey Map Collection - Cartography Associates
Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection Database and Blog. The Map Database has many viewers and the Blog has numerous categories. The historical map collection has over 22,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.
Popular collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall & case, children's, and manuscript maps. Search examples are United States map, Geology maps, California map, Afghanistan map, America map, New York City map, Chicago map, and U.S. Civil War maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy, art, explorations, local and family history.
Chicago Tribune: Online competition forces price cuts on used books
BY LOUIS AGUILAR
The Detroit News
11:30 a.m. CDT, July 21, 2010